They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!

Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!

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Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?

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You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.

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Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.

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Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca

Just FYI, I don’t believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I’ve seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that’s been corrected?

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though, as you know/ we are everywhere

True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don’t think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn’t put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.

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I like being in a regional instance, it means I can view local and see Australian news etc, it also means I don’t need to tell people where I’m from as often

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I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.

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Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I’m British! Big love!

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